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Assoc Prof Alan Branford

Associate Professor Alan Branford
Position/s:Director of Studies in Mathematics and Statistics
School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics
Phone: +61 8 82012036
Email:
Location: Information, Science & Technology (349)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (1983), Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

Teaching

Topic Coordinator:

  • STAT2700  Applied Statistics Laboratory
  • STAT3702  Stochastic Processes
  • STAT5702  Statistical Methods for Engineering and Science

Research and consultancy

Research interests

Probability Modelling
Analysis of Survival Data

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Kuhn, J., Warren, A., Maletta, D., & Branford, A.J., 2011. Local grade inflation and local proportion of withdrawals. Research in Higher Education Journal, 14, 66-98.

Codd, J.R., Sanderson, K.J., & Branford, A.J., 2003. Roosting activity budget of the southern bent-wing bat (Miniopterus schreibersii bassanii). Australian Journal of Zoology, 51(3), 307-316.

Refereed conference papers

Lee, G.N. & Branford, A.J., 2009. Bias in radiologic studies: a review. 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting Program, Radiological Society of North America, 1082-1082.

Branford, A.J., 2001. Statistics Computing Laboratory. Computer Based Learning in Science.

Professional and community engagement

Statistical Society of Australia Inc

Expertise for media contact

  • Classification Theory the assigning of objects of unknown classification to one of a known set of groupings, cluster analysis: the detection of clusters within groups of objects
  • Analysis of Survival Data the inference of the effects of explanatory variables on survival time
  • Probability and Games of Chance the philosophy of probability, models of systems subject to chance, analysis of games of chance

Subject/s

  • Statistics


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